Re: We're not gaigin, we're "foreigners of racial distinction"!
Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson wrote:
> I'll give you one guess as to who coined that phrase.
And what does it mean? A local who doesn't look "local" or a gaigin who
doesn't "look" suitably gaikokurandish?
(Forgive my apparent laziness, but I'd prefer not to have to look
through the site)
--
"You are about to embark on a course of studies which... form a noble
adventure. Except for those of you who will become teachers or dons, all
that you will learn in the course of your studies will not be of the
slightest possible use to you in later life -- save only this -- that if
you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man
is talking rot"
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